Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-05-01

there was paragraph puDiiSueu INV 'OHS
ago which described her as carrying sum
/ of money Ia Philadelphia herself IN order
to save the heavy charges which would
have been entailed had it been sent IN
some other way. She sometimes carries
/ fortunes in securities about New York in a
/ hand sachel, and uses the street cars as
often as she does her carriage. Mrs. Hop
kins is thoroughly acquainted with all the
WAYS of business. She has broad grasp
of financial questions, looks alter her vast
| interests closely and drives bargain with
both tact and economy. Miss EllzaDeth
Garrett WAS the confidential secretary oil
her father for some years before he died.
died. and she understands the value oil
Baltimore and Ohio railroad stock as well
rs any man in the country. Inc men
est widow in Colorado was tne
wife of the late John w. lllh'
who was known some years ago as the
cattle king of Colorado. lllf lett about
loo 900 head of cattle, and it Is said that
his widow manages his estates as we'll as
any business man could. She went to Color
a,lo a. a sewing machine agent, though she
came of wealthy family and could have
remained at home doing nothing. She
there met Tiff and married him, and l
doubt not the experience she OBTAINED IN
connection with the sewing machine AIDS
her in the management OF her fortune.
Speaking of cattle, there is cattle queen
in Texas near Corpus Christi, Mrs. Rogers,
who is said to be worth 81, OOO,OOO, and
who has many times as much stock as JoD
did in his most prosperous days. Her
husband is a preacher, but Mrs. Rogers
manages the butin9ss. She sells the stock
herself, buys all the supplies and can ride
a horse as we'll rs any OF the many cow
boys whom she has in her employ. An
other cattle queen is the widow of Gen.
| Meredith. Of Illinois, and she breeds
| q different kind OF cattle from Mrs.
| Rogers. Her stock is of better grade.
| Meredith was worth about $500 900 along
in the seventies, but he failed. HIS wife
| took what was left of the herd, managed
| il. and made money. She was content
with a good round price for her stock, ana
she did not believe i'll owning $40, 600 bulls
and So. 600 calves. One Of the wealthiest
women in Ohio is Mrs. George Ward
| Nichols, who is said to have an income OF
| $500, 900. She is the daughter of Joseph
| LOnpwOrth, and she is the founder and
proprietor of the lockwood pottery, which
is noted for it's exquisite Workmanship
both in Europe and America. Mrs. Mich
OILS took up the pottery craze when 1t came
over to this country n few years ago. She
developed the art tastes i'll Cincinnati and
established this factory. She works i'll II
about five hours daily, and is constantly
ut work improving her ware. Her works
sell well in New York, and they have au
international reputation. Mrs. Frank
Leslie has made 81 900, 600 in four years,
and there is no brighter business woman
in the world than she.
The richest woman in South American
is a good business woman. She is DOnG
Isadora CousinO, of Santiago, Chill. She
got big fortune from her father and mar
ried another. Her husband died, and SHE
has now millions of acres of land, million,
of money, hundreds of thousands Of cattle
cod, copper and silver mines, n railroa,
and a fleet OF iron steamships. She has NJ
income of several millions Il year, and hel
coal mines bring her in $4,000 month
She owns town of 1000 people
and pays ont 500, 900 month in wages
she HAS SuBtIlulGutlGll1 lpA tlAA hNA NSNNAb
Iishments, and she receives weekly report
from them. She is sharp at driving bar
/, gain, aud, while she is very generous, sh
rpuuires a strict account of every dOlla
made and spent upon her estate. She un
derstands fortune hunters and iOrtun
hunting, and is satisfied to remain as sh
is.
| have said nothing about the rich mar
ried women of the cOuntTy-wOmen VIII
, have property in their own right-and
. forgot TO mention among the rich unnar
= ried girls that Amapda Eubanks, VIII
o. lives near Sparta, Ga, is tine richest ne
oreSs i'm the world. 1t is said that Mis-
$ Euhanks received $500, 600 from the estat
, Of a wealthy Georgia planter, who died il
l~S5, leaving an estate OF about $500, 900
D He had no children, but q large numbe
] ofrelatiyes. He cut off his kindred will
t small sums and bequeathed the remainde
as above stated. Speaking OF the ricI
married women, many OF our prOmlnen
= public men have added 10 their fortune
! by good marriages, Whitelaw Reid
. wife, the daughter OF d. o. Mills, is WORT
A feEtuna1-sllayOr Hewitt, of New York
I d.des his prosperity from the tree n
: DWas made tutor to Peter Cooper
n daughter, whom he atterward married
. Senator Payne's wife brought con
. siderable real estate into the family an
the old Perry farm, upon a part OF whic
4 the Payne homestead stands, Is now 1
? the most fashionable part of Euclid avenue
I Sarretary VLi...,, married prosperity
5 fortune in Henry B. Payne's daughter
? and Mrs. Whitney or her children wi
f probably fall heir to the dozen and NOR
: millic which her bachelor brother Olive
I owns. Congressman Hit, of Illinois, &C
= a nice lot with his wife, and John Ha
WAS made a millionaire by his marTiag
D with the daughter of Amasa Stone. Cor
e greSsman Tom Payne, of Pittsburg, ha
: made good deal of money himself, bu
2 his wife, who is the daughter of Smith, tn
r partner of HOStetter, who made the stOm
= aCh bitters, has fortune which runs hig
{ into the hundreds of thousands, and Sens
\ tor Hale's wife inherited fortune from he
70 tather-Zach Chandler.
FRANK G.. CARPENTER.